And Now a Few More Lists: 2011 Exit Interviews with Local Bands
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What are your five favorite albums released this year?
Matt:
Crystal Stilts - In Love with Oblivion
Tim Cohen - Magic Trick
Pure X - Pleasure
Quilt - s/t
Wavepool Abortion - s/t
Peter:
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream
Cults - s/t
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
Gross Magic - Teen Jamz EP
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Joe:
Dirty Beaches - Badlands
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
Yuck - s/t
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
Maura:
Tough Knuckles - Vanna White
Atlas Sound - Parallax
Woods - Sun and Shade
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
How about the best show you saw and/or played in?
Matt: Soundgarden at Prudential Center
Peter: Hunx & His Punx at the Knitting Factory
Joe: Fucked Up at Warsaw
Maura: Deerhunter at Webster Hall / Playing during a crazy blizzard with Yuck at Glasslands
Any local band you think deserved more attention this year?
Matt: Darlings
Joe: Darlings
Maura: Regal Degal
The most tragic loss of 2011 was... R.E.M, LCD Soundsystem, The White Stripes or the mystique of Jeff Mangum?
Matt: The death of Mangum mystique just meant that we got to see him play live! Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Peter: Trish Keenan from Broadcast
Joe: Gil Scott-Heron
Maura: Trish Keenan
Who would you say is a band to look out for next year?
Matt: The Doozies
Peter: Power Plant
Joe: Darlings
Maura: Adel Bengo
Band you'd most like to see reunite in 2012?
Matt: Refused
Peter: ABBA with Bill Bruford (yes, King Crimson) on drums
Joe: Darlings. Or Guns N' Roses.
Maura: The Beatles, Spacemen 3, Galaxie 500
What's on the agenda for Darlings next year?
We have a new album in the can, if anyone wants to put it out for us.
Any New Year's resolutions?
Matt: Work on my posture.
Peter: Teach my cat to open the front door when I'm locked out of the apartment.
Joe: The only resolutions I keep are the ones that I don't make.
Maura: Finish Anna Karenina, go to Paris.
